title: Symptom severity and disease activity indices for diverticulitis.
abstract: There are no controlled studies evaluating symptoms of diverticular disease or diverticulitis. Monitoring symptoms are reported repeatedly in research studies but yet an evaluation of the significance of recording these symptoms in a controlled study does not exist. The older literature was reviewed. The literature largely classifies the disease in stages, which are reviewed in this paper. Symptomatic uncomplicated diverticular disease and its evolution and the present literature on this are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. martin.floch@yale.edu
authors.forename: Martin H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Floch
mesh_terms: D018450:Disease Progression; D004238:Diverticulitis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D012720:Severity of Illness Index